Colorado TOP 100 Q1 2013

So, keeping it simple, there are 300 titles on the tracking sheet.  Q1 titles spun = 234.  Here’s the TOP 100.  Next quarterly report comes out in July.

1. DeVotchKaLive with the Colorado Symphony
2. The LumineersThe Lumineers
3. Fierce Bad RabbitMaestro and the Elephant
4. Otis TaylorMy World Is Gone
5. Elephant RevivalIt’s Alive EP
6. Jeff Brinkman BandStrange
7. Beautiful Loser SocietyThe Desperate Promenade
8. The YawpersCapon Crusade
9. Esme PattersonAll Princes, I
10. Leftover SalmonAquatic Hitchhiker
11. A Boy and His KiteA Boy and His Kite
12. You, Me and ApolloS/T [EP]
13. Wire FacesKing Cataract
14. Jon WirtzTourist
15. Blue Canyon BoysNext Go Round
16. Chris DanielsBetter Days
17. Sera Cahoone (CC) – Deer Creek Canyon
18. Beats Noir!Where the Sun Goes Down
19. FlobotsThe Circle In the Square
20. ChurchillThe Change EP
21. Bonnie & The ClydesWrong Side Up
22. The GrometBarren
23. The Haunted WindchimesOut with the Crow
24. Danielle Ate The Sandwich{like a king}
25. Grant FarmThe Grant Farm
26. Land LinesLand Lines
27. Grant SabinAnthromusicology
28. Manuel Lopez TrioSearching Out
29. SHELSHEL
30. RaincheckRaincheck
31. Mike Clark & the Sugar SoundsRound and Round
32. O’Brien Party of 7 (CC) – Reincarnation, The Songs of Roger Miller
33. Joshua Novak Ephemeron
34. Darryl PurposeNext Time Around
35. Bad Brad & the Fat CatsEyes on the Prize
36. Mosey WestMerica
37. Strange AmericansA Royal Battle
38. Kristi SticeUnder the Willow
39. Rachel & the KingsTonic
40. 4H RoyaltyWhere UFOs Go To Die
40. Trout Steak RevivalFlight
41. Carmelita’s LoversGhosts of Our Former Selves
42. A Shoreline Dream“333”
43. The EpiloguesCinematics
44. Paper BirdRooms
45. The SwaybackDouble Four Time
46. Mama Lenny & the RemedyPunches and Hugs
47. Instant EmpireKeep UP!
48. Rob DrabkinLittle Steps EP
49. Brad GoodeChicago Red
49. Poet’s RowPoet’s Row
50. Catch BeesNarratives from a Factory Town
51. Achille LauroFlight or Flight
52. Patrick DethlefsFall & Rise
53. Sofie ReedSimplicity Chased Trouble Away
54. EuforquestraLet Us In
55. Bad Weather CaliforniaSunkissed
55. Tia Fuller (CC) – Angelic Warrior
56. The CentennialNervous System
56. WhiteWater RambleRoots & Groove
57. 3 Twins BroadbandCry at the Movies / How Couldya Not [single]
57. Dan Treanor’s Afrosippi Band f/Erica BrownTangled Road
58. A Mouthful of ThunderSlow Burn
59. The KnewMan Monster
60. Boa & the ConstrictorsMarried to the Blues
60. gogoLabBorder Patrol
61. Chris Thompson & Coral Creek String BandForty Years
62. Dennis WaneboRunning On Gravity
62. Eye and the ArrowIf By Fire
63. Tin Horn PrayerGrapple the Rails
64. Lisa BellThe Italian Project
64. Tyler WardHello. Love. Heartache.
65. Zach HeckendorfThe Cool Down
66. Abi Robins Such A Mess
67. Carbon ChoirSakhalin
68. Science PartnerRocky Mountain News
69. PolarityKing of Hearts
70. Halden Wofford & the Hi*BeamsLive at Hodi’s
71. West Water OutlawsReal Killer
72. Esther Sparks & the Whiskey RemedyBack to Life [single]
73. Ending PeopleFill Your Lungs
73. Fred Hess BIG BANDSpeak
73. Glowing HouseDays Run Out
73. Joe SampsonKill Our Friends
73. The JekyllsThe Sweet Factory
74. String Cheese IncidentCan’t Wait Another Day [single]
75. Mango fan Django Indigo Dreams
76. I’m With HerSongs We Said Goodbye To
77. MeniskusStowaway
78. Fox Steet AllstarsTough Talk
79. Jeremy DionGolden Some Days
79. Jesse ManleyA Path Through the Dark
79. John William DavisDead Simple, Vol. 1: You Talk Funny
79. P-NuckleThe System
80. Robert Cline, Jr.All the Right Reasons
81. TennisYoung & Old
82. Calder’s RevolversSteady By Your Side
82. Instant EmpireHeavy Hollow
83. Otis TaylorOtis Taylor’s Contraband
84. Amazing TwinGrown Alone

The Colorado Sound S7 EP12 + New Video/Album Pick

grizzly goat adamsMarch 31 — Sunday — Happy Easter (if you celebrate such things).  Today is also the day when I have to finish up the NEWS NOTES & SPINS for April 1.  Doesn’t mean though that I neglected this week’s playlist post or something new that hit my desk yesterday while I was working on the spins data.

In this week’s show I pulled a tribute to Richie Furay — from his days with Buffalo Springfield from their last album, and from Poco’s first album.  Is is these incredible early bands in Richie’s career that have established him as one of the most legendary of Colorado’s musicians.  He’s in the studio now with John Macy and friends finishing up a new solo effort due for release this year.  I have no doubt it will be yet another legacy record in his career, although for sure not all his previously released solo efforts have been all that…

VIDEO / NEW RELEASE OF THE WEEK
I’m a junkie.  I’m always looking for that next new hit, that next “wow” moment that releases all the feel good at one time … sometimes it’s brutally ecstatic, but then you get the occasional “on second thought” moment when you realize that there’s always that next great hit and maybe this one wasn’t all that – ya know?

Durango singer-songwriter Thom Chacon just breathed his voice on me and released that energy.  I think that what I’m hearing is pretty significant – like the first time I heard Steve Earle’s “Copperhead Road” in ’88 or Son Volt’s “Trace” in ’95.  Those are seminal recordings, rare performances …anything that’s compared to them had better bring it – one shot – one hit – all the feel good in one huge rush.  And it had better be worth more than one dose …otherwise it’s just another pissed load.

The album production notes really are the tie-off … “This record was recorded using all discrete transistor and vacuum tube technology in an all analogue format with Bob Dylan’s fabulous rhythm section (Tony Garner on bass and George Recile on drums).”  The record is finished masterfully and pressed on 200 gram virgin vinyl.

Before you even get to the notes though, it’s Thom who’s offering …that early free “what’s this” thing that happens before the full rush comes on …it happens within half a song, half of the first song, the 2:29 “Innocent Man.”  It’s in the voice, in the way he tells the story.  In “American Dream,” the first official single and video off the album, a sense of fatalism comes into the picture with lines like “I’m worth more dead cuz baby I owe.”  “Juarez, Mexico” could be a sister song to some of Dave Alvin’s folkier tomes.  “Alcohol” stings as you know it does when the needle breaks the flesh – “oh, I’m sick, I’m shivering and I want nothing more than to spend time with you.”  It only works if it’s pure …and Thom is every bit that – pure.  At least that’s the hope now, isn’t it?

All in smooth haze and all, what I’m hearing tonight has a transcendent quality …and if not for the crowded bazaar today it seems on first blush that it could easily be considered in the same vein as…

…now, admitting you have a problem, as the first step to recovery, only works if you want to recover, right?

…yeah, no …not this time …not tonight.

Maybe tomorrow.

PLAYLIST S7 EP12

(C) = current title
(G) = gold
(R) = recurrent
(D) = debut album, ep, or single
(N) = new song from previously debuted album or ep

(G) Rick Roberts “West Wind” from She Is A Song (1973)
(G) Dan Fogelberg “Full Circle” from Full Circle (2003)
(C) Ryan Chrys “Stand & Be Counted” from A Lick & A Promise (2013)
(C) You Me and Apollo “Oh My Molly” from You Me and Apollo (2012)
(C) Johnny Hickman “Another Road” from Tilting (2012)
(R) Rachel James “We Don’t Care” from Not Giving Up (2011)
(G) Basheba Earth “Galaktik Luv” from Mothership (2006)
(R) Mahlon Hawk “Blackbird” from Black Edge (2011)
(C) Dan Treanor’s Afrosippi Band featuring Erica Brown “Tangled Road” from Tangled Road (2012)
(C) WhiteWater Ramble “Standard Deviation” from Roots & Groove (2013)
(G) Yonder Mountain String Band “Criminal” from The Show (2009)
(G) Ninth + Lincoln Orchestra “Your Cent” from Ninth & Lincoln (2008)
(G) Buffalo Springfield “Kind Woman” from Last Time Around (1968) *tribute to Richie Furay*
(G) Poco “Calico Lady” from Pickin’ Up The Pieces (1969) *tribute to Richie Furay*
(C) Chris Daniels “Sister Delores” from Better Days (2012)
(C) Jeff Brinkman Band “Ordinary Day” from Strange (2012)
(C) Lisa Bell “Bring the Love” from The Italian Project (2013)
(N) Congress “Killing Me Softly” from Loft Tapes (2013)
(C) Fierce Bad Rabbit “Carry On” from Maestro & the Elephant (2013)
(G) Freddi / Henchi and the Soulsetters “I Want to Dance, Dance, Dance” from Crown Princes of Funk: The Last Set (2010)
(R) Petals of Spain “Working 9 to 5” from Late Night Visitor (2011)
(C) Strange Americans “Plastic Pearls” from A Royal Battle (2012)
(C) Idlewhile Band “Dragonfly” from Live at the Walnut Room EP Vol 1 (2012)
(D) Matt Skellenger “My Side” from The Owls Are Not What They Seem (2013)

The Colorado Sound S7/EP05 Feb 2013 + Video of the Week.

chris k july 2010Every week I receive a fairly large amount of new music to evaluate for the show.  I’d say most of what I get makes it on-air at least once.  I don’t know if that’s because I’m only receiving the cream of the crop, or if we’ve just become that good in Colorado.  I like to think it’s a bit of both.

I’m often found cruising Facebook, scanning for items of information I can use in the news and notes section of the show, or just information about artists in general to talk about.  Recently, I saw a post for a show that got my attention, not because of the headliner, but because I mistook the message and thought a different band was having a cd release party… whereupon I immediately contacted that band about their new cd.  Of course, to my chagrin, I discovered I had made a mistake.  I was subsequently turned onto a new artist … whose cd release party it really was … and was told that she’d done very well on YouTube, with 24,081 subscribers and 2,399,645 video views, and that she sells out the rare show she does locally.  So, with that background – may I please introduce to you Miss Elise Lieberth with our video of the week selection.  

PLAYLIST S7/EP05 Feb 2013

(D) = album debut
(N) = new song debut

Dianne Reeves “Afro Blue (Live)” from The Best of Dianne Reeves (2000)
Wendy Woo “Wide Awake and Dreaming” from Wide Awake and Dreaming (1999)
Beats Noir! “Where the Sun Goes Down” from Where the Sun Goes Down (2013)
Tyler Ward “The Way We Are” from Hello. Love. Heartbreak (2012)
The Fray “Over My Head (Cable Car)” from How to Save A Life (2005)
Dan Treanor’s Afrosippi Band featuring Erica Brown “Tangled Road” from Tangled Road (2012)
(D) Ryan Chrys “The Road Never Ends” from A Lick & A Promise (2013)
Hickman-Dalton Gang “Construction Man” from Hickman-Dalton Gang Vol. II (2011)
You Me and Apollo “Oh My Molly” from You Me and Apollo (2012)
(D) A Boy and His Kite “You Want It, You Got It” from A Boy and His Kite (2012)
(N) Carmelita’s Lovers “Need to Know” from Ghosts of Our Former Selves (2013)
Moetones “Roadhouse” from Lowbrow (2012)
Metropolitan Jazz Orchestra “Beauty and the Beast” from Sharks And Manatees (2012)
Chris Daniels & the Kings “Congo Square” from Live Wired! (1995)
Leftover Salmon “Dance On Your Head” from The Nashville Sessions (1999)
(N) John William Davis “Same Old Devil” from Dead Simple, Vol. 1: You Talk Funny (2013)
Sofie Reed “Leaving This Morning” from Simplicity Chased Trouble Away (2012)
(D) Bad Brad & the Fat Cats “Thunder On The Mountain” from Eyes on the Prize (2013)
(D) Catch Bees “Brevity” from Narratives from a Factory Town (2013)
(D) Jeremy Dion “Desperate Mama” from Golden Some Day (2013)
(D) Josh Dillard “Dandelion Clocks” from The Whale & the Sea (2011)
The Jekylls “You’re Probably Right” from The Sweet Factory (2012)
Ten Pound Elephant “Talk to Me” from Ten Pound Elephant (2012)
Whiskey Blanket “Rule the Roost” from No Object (2010)
(D) gogoLab “Tumbleweeds” from Border Patrol (2013)